The Soc.Culture.Celtic Faq -------------------------- The original author of most of this fine document was the legendary Craig Cockburn (pronounced coburn !!) and is currently maintained by Godfrey Nolan, the compiler of the Irish section. If you have any comments or additions then please email me at godfrey@iol.ie Contributors Preliminary Notes 1 - Contents 2 - The Celts and Celtic language questions 3 - Alba - Scotland 4 - Alba Nuadh - Nova Scotia 5 - Breizh - Brittany 6 - Cymru - Wales 7 - Eire - Ireland 8 - Kernow - Cornwall 9 - Mannin - Isle of Man 10 - Celtic events & societies in major cities around the world ##### Contributors (in no particular order): -------------------------------------- Craig Cockburn, Godfrey Nolan, Sean Kelley, Jeff Inglis, Colin Wilson, Frank Maloney, Lorraine MacDonald, Chris Brady, Caoimhin O Donnaile, Jack Campin, Michael Campbell, Shawn Mehan, Kev Robinson, Sharon Israel, Paul O'Kane, Bruce Hood, Liam Ferrie, Ken McDougall, James G. Dilmore, Stephanie Schmidt, Konrad A. Vasterman, Tony Killeen, Bill Grantham, Liam Greenslade, Phil Irwin, Barry Flanagan, Padraig Murphy, Mike Maxwell, Michael McGrath, Jim Jackson, Antoin O Lachtnain plus many others who have sent me corrections and comments. Sorry if I left out anyone, it's been a complex process gathering and collating all the information - if anyone submitted material and didn't get mentioned above, then please contact me at godfrey@iol.ie for a mention in the next edition. ##### Preliminary Notes ----------------- Apologies to all for not posting the FAQ towards the end of last year. Too much work and too little time. Thankfully normality has returned and over the next few months this document will be posted regularly to soc.culture.celtic and the WWW updated here at sunsite. Please read this FAQ before posting to soc.culture.celtic The most recent FAQ is available through anonymous ftp from ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/academic/languages/gaelic/Scc and of course via the WWW on or http://sunsite.unc.edu/gaelic/sccfaq.html older versions can be found in ftp://celtic.stanford.edu/pub/misc/SCC.FAQ orftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet-by-group/news.answers/celtic-culture After a few more weeks I'll post the text version of the FAQ to news.answers and then rtfm will no longer be an old version. This FAQ is a living document, if you have any suggestions or additions that you would consider relevent then please email me at godfrey@iol.ie or godfrey@itc.icl.ie The FAQ is NOT a political document, the information is offered, with no bias to any of the communities in Northern Ireland or the Republic of Ireland and no bias towards the devolution movements in Wales or Scotland. In fact, this document attempts to present only information about any of the Celtic communities and does not side with any particular side in any political matter. Mind you the way things are going this is less of a problem of late. Accents in this document are represented by a / or \ after the vowel in question e.g. e/ represents e-fada (=e acute) The UK phone numbers in this guide will be changing this Easter Sunday, April 16. Replace the initial 0 with 01. i.e. 031 123 4567 will be 0131 123 4567 (or from outside the UK,+[44] 131 123 4567) The new style phone numbers are already in operation. #####